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PSA Oriental Mindoro Registers 740 thousand Mindoreños in PhilSys Step 2 Registration

As of 11 May 2024, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) of Oriental Mindoro had successfully registered 740,278 Mindoreños through the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) Step 2 Registration. As per the 2020 Census of Population and Housing (CPH), it accounts for 81.50 percent of Oriental Mindoro's total population of 908,339 people.

The Provincial Statistics Office (PSO) of PSA Oriental Mindoro carried out a number of initiatives, one of which was the reopening of mobile registration stations in the municipalities of Puerto Galera and Bansud in April and May of 2024. The allocated registration personnel in the Socorro Local Government Unit (LGU) were also sent to LGU Pola in order to register the remaining Indigenous People (IPs) in the aforementioned municipality.

Additionally, a mobile registration was conducted in the remote Municipality of San Teodoro community of Barangay Bigaan. The goal of the registration, which took place on 05 April 2024, was to register indigenous individuals who had not yet been registered with PhilSys. Nine of the 61 residents that were registered also obtained their ePhilIDs.

PSA Oriental Mindoro maintains PhilSys registration on wheels, school mobile registration, and institutional mobile registration in an effort to strengthen the implementation of PhilSys. Additionally, PSA participated in information-gathering activities and attended ABC meetings and caravans in different municipalities of Oriental Mindoro.

(SGD) DONNA MARIE D. MOBE
(Supervising Statistical Specialist)
Officer-in-Charge
Oriental Mindoro Provincial Statistical Office